The Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors (AIACC)
project is a global initiative developed in collaboration with the IPCC and implemented by UNEP and
executed jointly by START and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), which funds collaborative
research, training and technical support to enhance the scientific capacity of developing countries to
assess climate change vulnerabilities and adaptations, and generate and communicate information useful for
adaptation planning and action. http://www.aiaccproject.org/

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability initiated the international Cities for Climate
Protection (CCP) Campaign in 1993, a movement of more than 800 local governments throughout the world, aims
to assist cities in integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation into their decision-making
processes and enhance urban livability and sustainability. Other programs, including Local Agenda 21, the
Sustainable Procurement Program and the Sustainability Management Program, support ICLEI’s approach
to climate change mitigation and adaptation. http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=800

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in collaboration with the Energy and
Resources Institute (TERI) multi-year project (2005–2009) on Adaptive Policy-Making, aims to help
government agriculture and water resource policy-makers at the local, state and federal levels design
adaptive policies. http://www.iisd.org/climate/vulnerability/policy.asp

The Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO)
project, led by the University of Manchester, UK, includes producing a set of tools to help planners,
designers and engineers make decisions on adapting the urban landscape to increased heat spells. http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/cure/research/scorchio

Health

The most developed adaptation strategies in the health sector are those addressing heatwaves in Europe,
put in place following the 2003 heatwave. For example, France’s heatwave plan saved many lives in
2006. There are also several other examples, incluing a project in the United Republic of Tanzania, with
assistance from Japan, on measures for enhancing the early diagnosis of malaria (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.10
and Add.1)

The Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI) is a global effort by WHO and UNEP to support
action by developing country policymakers on environmental threats to health. HELI activities include
country-level pilot projects and refinement of assessment tools to support decision-making, and promoting
knowledge about health and environment linkages. http://www.who.int/heli/en

Australia has developed a specific national agriculture and climate change action plan. Numerous pilot
projects, some of which include awareness-raising and capacity-building, have also been implemented,
notably in Bangladesh (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.10 and Add.1).

Christian Aid and Practical Action work with communities on a number of rural extension systems
services. For example, in Kenya, selected people in remote semi-arid areas where there are no practising
vets have been trained as Community-Based Animal Health workers; in Sicuani province in the Andean region
of Peru selected community members who are successful farmers undergo training in different aspects of
agricultural and livestock extension and then become advisors kamayoq, selling their services. http://practicalaction.org and
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/

FAO's programmes on climate change include the development of practices aimed at increasing the
resilience of agricultural production systems, national and regional observing systems, and data and
information collection and dissemination. For example, on the impact of climate on agriculture, FAO’s
CLIMPAG is aimed at bringing together the various aspects and interactions between weather, climate and
agriculture in the general context of food security. http://www.fao.org/nr/climpag

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) projects include the Agricultural Support
Programme in Mozambique; the Rural Income Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam; the
Promotion of Technology Transfer Project to Peasant Communities in the Highlands, Peru; and various
projects in Yemen. http://www.ifad.org/ (see Operations/Projects by
country).

The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the
Water Convention) is currently preparing guidance on water and climate adaptation to be adopted by Parties
in 2009. http://www.unece.org/env/water/welcome.html

The Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate provides an interface between water managers and the
climate community and is working to provide tools and methodologies and raise awareness on adaptation in
the water sector. http://www.waterandclimate.org/

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters strategic priorities for freshwater can
support the integration of adaptation into transboundary water governance processes http://www.gefweb.org/

The Institute for Water Education is working on enabling regional partners to develop capacities to
deal with adaptation. http://www.unesco.org/water

The International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:Learn) has several programmes on
transboundary water management, including the institutional set-up of inter-ministerial committees.
http://www.iwlearn.net/

The OECD and IEA Secretariats have produced a series of papers for the Annex I Expert Group of the OECD
on the role that national policy frameworks play in adaptation to climate change. The series includes a
review of domestic policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change in the water sector in developed and
developing countries (Case studies from Mexico, India, Argentina and Zimbabwe). http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/aixg

In Cuba, the National Institute of Water Resources (INRH) has developed a system of six Hydrographic
Basin councils, involving national and provincial organizations and governments, to undertake integrated
work programmes. http://www.cubagob.cu/ingles/des_eco/inrh/index.htm

Examples from Parties that address impacts of climate change in coastal zones include restriction of
coastal development in South Africa and Malta’s Coastal Area Management Programme, which brought
together all regulatory and implementing agencies, stakeholders and NGOs concerned.
(FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.10 and Add.1)

The Dynamic and Interactive Asessment of National, Regional and Global Vulnerability of Coastal Zones
to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise (DINAS-COAST) project developed the DIVA (Dynamic Interactive
Vulnerability Assessment) tool, which includes a range of mitigation and adaptation scenarios that can be
analysed. http://diva.demis.nl/

The Global Environment Facility project database includes an increasing number of adaptation projects
being undertaken in coastal zones at local, national and regional level, which contribute to the assessment
of baseline adaptive capacity and provide lessons on how to increase and monitor adaptive capacity,
including in Mexico, West Africa and many SIDS. http://www.gefonline.org/

The Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands brings together ocean leaders from governments,
international organizations, NGOs, the private sector, and scientific institutions, to achieve the
sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and islands. http://www.globaloceans.org/

The OECD and IEA Secretariats have produced a series of papers for the Annex I Expert Group of the
UNFCCC on the role that national policy frameworks play in adaptation to climate change, including a paper
on ‘Policy Frameworks for Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones: The Case of the Gulf of
Mexico’. http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/aixg